[ubuntu-x] State of X for quantal

[Bryce Harrington]

On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 08:51:33AM -0700, Chase Douglas wrote:
> To be honest, the stack corruption issue has always been a "potential"
> issue. It's hard to say whether the issue was the real cause of bugs
> or not, but it could be. I don't have any proof either way.
> 
> The current X server in quantal should tell us if a message has been
> printed unsafely. It will say that the message printing call needs to
> be converted to a safe version. The message printing should always
> make it to the log, I think, so we will definitely know if an unsafe
> log occurred.
> 
> Thus, if we see a bug and we do *not* see an unsafe log warning, then
> the bug must be something else. Perhaps that will help narrow down the
> possibilities.

Well, bug #1059994 as a typical example.  It's hitting a FatalError:

#12 0x00007fa94a96b3fd in FatalError (f=f at entry=0x7fa94a97e438 "%s: VT_ACTIVATE failed: %s\n") at ../../os/log.c:793

However there are no "VT_ACTIVATE failed" messages in the attached
Xorg.0.log files, and no messages about "unsafe log" in Xorg.0.log,
dmesg, or lightdm logs.

What is the text of the unsafe log message that we should scan for?  And
does it get printed to Xorg.0.log or elsewhere?

Bryce